iata si primele stiri despre raportul comisiei prvind implementarea AP. si din cate stiu si Ucraina va avea o evaluare mai buna decat a Moldovei, pentru ca simplu fapt ca a facut mai multe progrese decat guvernul de la chisinau preocupat in primul si in primul rand de lupte inter-ministeriale si intra-ministeriale.
Moldova decat sa pierde timp spunand ca “este” diferita de nord-africani si ucraineni, si trambitand cat de “euro-balcanica” este- mai bine s-ar ocupa de reforme. ca asa-numitele progrese exista doar in realitatea virtuala a rapoartelor guvernamentale. Moldova is approaching a train-crash in relatiile cu UE. cu asa zel reformist la Chisinau pot pune pariu ca in 3-4 ani Moldova va face parte din Uniunea Eurasiatica in the making.
http://euobserver.com/9/22922

Morocco and Jordan lead EU ‘neighbourhood’ pack


21.11.2006 – 17:15 CET | By Andrew Rettman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Morocco and Jordan did best in 2005 in terms
of EU reforms in line with the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the
European Commission will say next week, when it unveils proposals for
a new ENP-plus that are to include a pro-democracy fund and a
multilateral diplomatic structure for eastern Europe.

The two Mediterranean rim states already got bits of extra EU cash in
recognition of progress last year, but in the 2007 to 2013 period
Brussels plans to set up a formal €300 million fund to reward
pro-democracy pace setters in the 16-strong ENP club, commission
sources revealed on Tuesday (21 November).

The commission’s detailed blueprint for the new model ENP – which aims
to create a ring of peaceful and economically advanced states around
the EU’s borders – will be unveiled in Brussels on 29 November in time
for the upcoming German EU presidency to dovetail the ideas with its
own foreign policy thinking.

The commission’s ENP-plus will suggest a second new fund of €700
million to help neighbourhood states co-fund borrowing from the
European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, with Brussels hoping member states will top up its €700
million to €7 billion.

Brussels is also set to propose a new multilateral diplomatic
structure for the six ex-Soviet states covered by the ENP on the model
of the Barcelona Process, which has tried to improve relations with
Mediterranean rim states as a group since it was put in place in 1995.

The ex-Soviet states currently talk to the EU on a bilateral basis only.

Alternative to enlargement?
But it is unclear how the new ENP will address some of the key
criticisms levelled at the old version by some analysts, who say the
ENP does not offer a big enough incentive for painful reforms in
transitional states such as Ukraine and that bureaucracy often sees EU
projects outpaced by events on the ground.

The ENP-plus will not offer any promises on enlargement for EU-hopeful
states Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia with commission sources saying it
is a “complementary” policy to accession rather than an “alternative”,
but with most of the ex-Soviet hopefuls seeing it as a waiting room
for at least 10 years before talks on accession can begin.

The very language used to describe the new ENP as a policy that will
“offer a perspective of a deeper single market integration” mirrors
the pro-accession language that Ukraine is fighting to get into its
new post-2007 EU treaty, pushing Brussels to give a “perspective” on
enlargement instead.

Meanwhile, the commission’s plan does not foresee rolling out the ENP
to Central Asian states such as Kazakhstan – which has asked to be
part of the neighbourhood scheme – but it does also plan to unveil a
new policy blueprint for Central Asia after 29 November that will have
“some elements of the neighbourhood policy” in it.

Brussels and Berlin see eye-to-eye
Brussels’ ideas seem to fit neatly with Germany’s thinking on future
EU engagement in the post-Soviet east, as outlined in a so-called
“Ostpolitik” document drafted this summer by a strategic planning unit
attached to the German foreign ministry.

With strong regard for an ascendant Russian power that must be made to
feel “welcome” in Europe dominating Germany’s vision, Berlin foresees
an enhanced ENP that would see EU neighbours adopt EU single market
law but fall short of accession during the next 10 years to create a
buffer-ring of non-EU but EU-like states.

The upcoming German presidency is also considering reaching out to
Central Asia by “bundling” existing EU projects for creating free
trade zones and building new pipelines into a “coherent” new policy,
the first glimmer of which could already be seen in Berlin’s push to
relax EU sanctions against Uzbekistan earlier this month.